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Sudan, Egypt promised
U.S. military assistance

CAIRO, Oct. 16 (R) — Advanced U.S.
radax planes manned by American pilots and
technicians monitored Libya's borders with
Egypt and Sudan Friday, Defense Ministry
officials said here.

The two Airborne Warning and Control
System (AW ACS) planes could detect air
traffic as far south as Sudan’s border with
Chad, the officials added. Sudanese Presi-
dent Jaafar Numeiri, who has accused Libyan
jets of strafing Sudanese villages at the bor-
der with Chad, meanwhile, said he would
send 600 suicide commandos into Libya.

The AW ACS planes, the first instalment in
a package of extra U.S. military aid to Egypt
after the assassination of President Anwar
Sadat Oct. 6, arrived Thursday. The officials
said the planes were operating out of airbases
west of Cairo and near Aswan in southern
Egypt.

President Numeiri said in an interview pub-
lished in the semi-official newspaper A1 -
Ahram Friday that a suicide army would soon
leave its marie m Tripoli “and even in the
house of (Libyan leader Muammar) Qad-
dafi."

He said the operation would be “positive
defense" against alleged Libyan infiltration.

President Numeiri has said Libyan forces
sent to Chad last December to help the gov-
ernment there could invade by crossing the
Chadian border. Cairo, which signed a
mutual defense pact with Khartoum in 1976,
has sent anti-aircraft batteries to reinforce
Sudanese units.

Next month, the United States, Egypt and
Sudan will hold joint military exercises in
Egypt as a show of strength in the face of what
they allege is Soviet-inspired Libyan adven-
turism. Libya Thursday night called on the
U.S. to cancel the maneuvers and withdraw
the two surveillance aircraft,

A Libyan statement said Washington was
well aware Tripoli posed no threat to its
pro-Western neighbors and that Libya had
no troop concentrations on its eastern bor-
ders.

Libya, despite its oil wealth and large
stockpile of mainly .Soviet-made weapons,
has a population of only ♦hree. million, com-
pared to a combined total of more than 60
million in Egypt and Sudan.

Egypt has declared an alert on th Libyan
border, see _

a tic increase in tension there. Egypt has
about 80,000 men in the area.

President Numeiri told Al -Ahram he
would recruit Sudanese workers m Libya to
wage what he called secret battles against
colonel QaddafTs government. “At least
1 0,000 (of them) can carry this out, as a ser-
vice to their country," he said.

In Washington, a senior defense official

said Thursday the United States plane to send
Sudan about 20 tanks, a dozen howitzers and
two jet fighters before the end of this year to
strengthen that country's defenses against
threats from Libya.

He said there is fighting along the Sudan-
ese border with Chad, where he estimated
Libya has some 4,000 troops, and “absolute
evidence” of Libyan air attacks on Sudanese
villages.

Noting that there are some 1 3 ,000 Cubans
and 1 ,400 Russians in Ethiopia along Sudan's
eastern flank, as well as Libyans in Chad on
the western side of the country, this official
said:” The most dear and pressing military
danger at the moment lies in Sudan,”
although the United States also is concerned
about possible Libyan threats to Egypt.

Meanwhile, more than 4,400 American
troops are expected to participate in Middle
East maneuvers promoted by President
Ronald Reagan’s administration as a symbol
of U.S. determination to its friends in the
area. While many details remain to be
worked out, the main element of next
month's “bright star*’ exercises in Egypt and
probably other friendly Mideast countries is
pretty much set

In a related development the administra-
tion of U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued
a new warning Thursday against Libyan
military aggression toward Egypt and the
Sudan, while also trying to cool off reports of
mounting tensions the region, “dearly it’s
not in our interest that these reports be given
credence, in the sense they may lead to an
increase in the rate of tension,” said Dean
Fischer, the state department spokesman.

He said some countries in the region are
“in a state of some tension, there axe some
military alerts that have been reported.” He
said tensions can “feed upon each other,”

iog. An (rffitial wfo didn't want to be iden-
tified said: “Tensions are mounting;" in
Libya.

In Moscow, Soviet President Leonid L
Brezhnev Thursday urged new Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak to help improve
poor relations between the two countries fol-
lowing the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

The official Soviet news agency Tass
reported Brezhnev's call in a telegram it said
the Soviet leader sent Mubarak congratulat-
ing him for winning a presidential election
held after Sadat 1 s death.

“You may rest assured that your readiness
for an improvement in relations between
Egypt and the Soviet Union in the interestsof
the peoples of our countries and establish-
ment of a just peace in the Middle East will
always meet wuh understanding and support
from the Soviet side,” Tass quoted Brezhnev
as saying in the telegram.

Masked gunmen kidnap son

of Irish millionaire in Ulster

DUBLIN, Oct. 16 (AP) — Ben Dunne Jr.,
heir to a multi -million dollar department
store chain, was kidnapped by four masked
gunmen in Northern Ireland Friday and dri-
ven south into the Irish Republic, police
reported.

A spokesman at police headquarters in
Dublin said: “We're treating this is as a kid-
napping and we've launched a major security
operation in tbe border area”. Police sources
in Belfast, capital of British-ruled Northern
Ireland, said security authorities there have
also launched a major search, but gave no
other details.

The Dublin spokesman, who declined to be
identified, said Dunne, who is aged about 35,

GCC ministers
to meet Monday

RIYADH, Oct. 16 (SPA) — Industry
ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council
will meet here next Monday and Tuesday, it
was learned here Friday. The conference win
be preceded by a two-day senior official
meeting to examine the working papers and
finalize die recommendations to be submit-
ted to the ministers.

Saudi Arabia is submitting a paper on the
Kingdom's concept of industrial cooperation
among the countries of the area and on the
sound bases for industrial integration among
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was dragged from his Mercedes limousine by
the gunmen near Killeen about 200 yards
north of the border. The kidnapping occured
in the north's South Armagh county, a stron-
ghold of anti-British Irish Republican Army
guerrillas and known to British troops fight-
ing them as “ bandit country.” Police sources
in Belfast said a patrol found the abandoned
Mercedes and now are examining it for fing-
erprints and other dues.

Dunne’s Northern Ireland-bom father,
whose name also is Ben, has a chain of 61
department stores in most major towns in
both parts of partitioned Ireland. Business
sources in Dublin estimated the family busi-
ness is worth around 20 million pounds ($8
million).

Hie kidnapped man's sister, Theresa, told
reporters at her home in Dublin that he was
driving to the Northern Ireland town of Por-
tadown, south of Belfast, to open a new store
there when he was grabbed. He was believed
to have been alone in the Mercedes. “The
police have been in touch with us. Thaf s all I
want to say at the moment,” she said. Police
in Dublin declined comment when asked if
any ransom demand had been made.

Sources dose to the outlawed IRA in Bel-
fast said it was most unlikely” that the guerril-
las had kidnapped Dunne. But informed sec-
urity sources in Belfast theorized that the
Marxist Irish National Liberation Army (IN-
LA), an ERA splinter opposed to big busi-
ness, could have carried out tbe abduction.

IRA gunmen kidnapped West German
industrialist Thomas Neidermayer, 45, out-
side hisBelfest home in December, 1973. His
decomposed body was found last year under
a garbage dump. IRA sources later said
Niedermayer, who also was the German con-
sul in Belfast, was grabbed in an abortive bid
to trade him for the release of Dolours and
Marion Price, two activists of the IRA’s
“ provisional" wing jailed in Britain for car
bombings in London in 1972. They claimed
he died of a heart attack soon after he was
seized.

IRA activists kidnapped Dutch Industrial-
ist Tiede Herrema in Limerick in the republic
in 1975 in an abortive bid to ransom him for
the release of Bridget Rose Dugadale, an
English heiress turned revolutionary jailed
for an art robbery and ha jacking a helicopter.
Herema was freed unharmed after his cap-
tors, rnHnd'mg Dugdale’s friend, IRA gun-
man Eddie Gallagher, following a lengthy
police siege of the bouse where they had
holed up.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE BASE, New Mexico; In its first guided launch, the Hughes
Aircraft Company’s Advance Medium-Range Alr-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) scores a
direct hit on a fighter aircraft drone target. In the top photo, the missile is launched from an
Air Force F-16 escorted by a chare plane. In the middle photo, tbe mksOe, after making a
near center hit, passes through the target aircraft, setting it aflame even though the missile
did not have a warhead. In the bottom photo, die QF-102 falls in flames over White Sands
Missile Range, N.M., where the test launch took {dace. The Amraam Joint Systems
Program Office, Egfin Air Force Base, Fla.,, manages the Air Force/Navy missile
development program.

Because of gas leak

32 die in Japan mishap

TOKYO, Oct. 16 ( AP) — The death toll in
Japan’s worst coal mining disaster in more
than a decade rose to 32 Friday and police
said the count could go even higher.

Police in Yubari, a northern Japan mining
community, said nine were hospitalized and
about 80 may still be trapped in the Hok-
kaido Colliery and Steamship Company mine
as of 9:30 p.m. (1230 GMT), nine hours after
a lethal gas leak. Mining officials said they
had made voice contact with 43-44 of the
miners still in the shaft. They said about 30
were trying to make their way to the surface
as the gas dissipated.

About 50 rescue workers had entered the
mine, some wearing oxygen air bags. One,
interviewed on the Japan Broadcasting Cor-
poration (NHK), said he had seen at least 20
bodies in the area of the leak. Tbe accident
occurred about 3,000 meters from the mouth
of the mine, in a new wing near the bottom of
the pit, shortly after noon. Mining officials
said the level of methane gas at the accident
site reached a density of 35 percent soon after

the leak.

The cause of the tragedy was not immedi-
ately known, although one miner interviewed
on television said there had been dynamiting
in the area several hours before the accident.
Japan's Kyodo news service said there were
89 miners still unaccounted for. Kyodo
quoted one miners as saying: “ all of a sudden
white coal dust came gushing out ... five of us
started running but breathing became harder
and harder and we kept falling over each
other. Morita, who was ahead of me, fell, and
I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him if
he was all right, but there was no answer.”

There was no report of an explosion. There
were about 800 men in the mine at the time
the lethal gas began flowing into the shaft.
Most were above the seepage and managed
to escape. Hundreds of family members and
friends of the dead and trapped gathered at
the entrance of the mine to wait for the out-
come of the rescue operations. One miner,
his face blackened, said “those are my friends
down there. If s so sad.”

Polisario claims victory

Saharan fighting unabated

RABAT, Oct. 16 (AFP) — Heavy fighting
is continuing at Guelta Zemmur, the Moroc-
can garrison town in Western Sahara
attacked by Polisario front guerrillas Tues-
day, a reliable source said here Friday.

It appeared that the Polisario, using sophis-
ticated new weapons, could be engaging as
many as 3,000 men in what was an extremely
bloody battle, the source added. The attack-
ers? use of armored track-laying troop trans-
porters seemed to be turning the desert guer-
rilla war in the territory into a conventional
armed conflict, tbe source said.

The Moroccan authorities meanwhile were
saying nothing about the fighting,, in contrast
with Moroccan King Hassan’s swift protests
to principal world leaders Tuesday shortly
after the attack began.

The sources said that the front had
occupied the town, which was being defended
by 2,500 Moroccans, since Thursday.

More than 2,000 Polisario guerrillas were
involved in the fighting, the Paris sources
said.

Reports from the Mauritanian capital of

Nouakchott also said casualties and fighting
were heavy.

Reliable sources said major Moroccan
reinforcements were believed to have been
sent in from Bou-Craawn some 20 kilometers
to the north of the strategic town.

Militarily Guelta Zemmur constitutes a
gateway to the central and southern regions
of Western Sahara. It is outside Morocco’s
defense line in the territory aimed at protect-
ing El Ayun and the phosphate industry.
King Hassan n said that the attack gave
Morocco “complete freedom of action” and
jeopardized peace efforts by the organization
of African Unity. These called for a ceasefire
and referendum to decide the territory’s
future.

The Polisario statement said the guerril-
las still “unshakeably” believed in a political
solution to the five-year war against Moroc-
can annexation of the former Spanish colony,
as called for by international organizations. _

The freeing of a Saharan town from occu-
pation was “not an abnormal developmenf '
in a struggle for self-determination and
national liberation, it said.

U.K. to honor missile pledge

BLACKPOOL, England, Oct. 16 (AP) T
Primc Minister Margaret Thatcher said Fri-
day Britain bad no choice but to accept the
American nuclear umbrella because the
declared objective of the Soviet Union was
“to buiy Western civilization.''

Unbowed by dissent within her party
ranks, she also said her government will not
change its right-money policies “just to court
popularity”. In her keynote address to the
annual Conservative Party conference —
which drew a five-minute s tanding ovation —
Mrs. Thatcher said Britain had no choice but
to retain nuclear weapons and strengthen hs
“close, effective and warm-hearted alliance
with tbe United States.”

“There are no unilateralists in the Krem-
lin,” she said, denouncing the opposition
Labor Party’s pledge to scrap Britain’s nuc-
lear defenses. She praised the “magnanim-
ity*' of the United States for helping to pre-
serve freedom in Europe during two world
wars.

Reaffirming Britain's commitment to
accept deployment of 160 nuclear Cruise
missiles on its soil, Mis. Thatcher said; “We
in Britain cannot honor the pledge to accept
the American nuclear umbrella, by simul-
taneously saying to our American friends,
you may defend our homes with your home-
based missiles, but you may not base those
missiles anywhere near our homes.

“The cost of keeping freedom would have
to be paid for. The cost of complacency would
be higher and we should lose everything that
is worthwhile,'' she added.

The Tory leader also defended Britain’s
membership in the European Economic
Community — opinion polls show (hat more
Britons want to withdraw — arguing that the
jobs plan would be at risk if Britain withdrew
from the 10-nation Common Market
A handful of demonstrators were ejected
from the meeting. Scuffles broke out between
police and several thousa n d demonstrators
who converged at the place demanding emp-
loyment

Egypt cracks down
on extremists again

CAIRO, Oct. 16 (R) — Egyptian security
forces have made another nation-wide
round-up of Muslim fundamentalists,
informed sources said Friday.

They reported that hundreds, probably
thousands, of second ranking figures in the
Islamic groups were being questioned.

Before his assassination 10 days ago. Pres-
ident Anwar Sadat arrested some 1 ,600 peo-
ple, most of them Muslim a?tivists bitterly
opposed to his pro-Western policies,

Sadat said he had a list of 7,000 secondary
figures in the fundamentalist movements and
offered them a second chance. The sources
said that following Sadat’s murder, inves-
tigators were trying to establish whether any
of the 7,000 were linked to acts of violence.

The authorities have blamed activists for
the assassination of Sadat, who was gunned
down at a military parade. His successor,
president Hosni Mubarak, has vowed to show
no mercy to religious activists and the gov-
ernment has warned that agitators provoking
civil disorder will be shot at sight.

Informed Egyptian sources said it
appeared the new round-up was timed to
coincide with the reopening of universities
Saturday.

Islamic groups command widespread sup-
port on campuses and in recent years their
candidates have scored big victories in stu-
dent union elections.

To control student fundamentalists, uni-
versities have set up a special police force and
undergraduates who misbehave are being
threatened with instant dismissal. On some
campuses, the authorities are talking of ban-
ning women students in veils and youths with
beards wearing traditional golabiyah (robes) .

* Last week, young fundamentalists staged a
virtual insurrection in the south Egyptian
town of Asyut, roaming the streets shooting

King undergoes
medical tests

RIYADH, Oct. 16 (SPA) — King Khaled
was admitted to hospital Friday for routine
medical tests. A statement by the royal court
said the tests were being carried out at the
King Faisal Specialized Hospital here.

The King returned to Riyadh Thursday
evening after spending some time in tbe
Western Region to supervise this year's pil-
grimage. Crown Prince Fahd returned to the
capital Friday evening.

Planes deal
voted out by

U.S. panel

Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, by the nar-
rowest margin, voted 9 — 8 Wednesday
against President Reagan’s planned sale of
AWACS radar planes and other military
equipment to Saudi Arabia. But the closeness
of the vote, coupled with a last-minute move
by Sen. Larry Pressler R-S.D., to support the
Saudi Arabian arms package gave the
administration renewed hope it can still win
Senate approval of the sale.

Following the committee vote, Senate
Majority leader Howard H. Baker R-Tenn.,
was almost euphoric when he talked about
the dose vote. “We have certain momen-
tum,” Baker said. “It's now winnable. Sev-
eral weeks ago it wasn't.”

Throughout several weeks of AWACS
debate on Capitol Hill, senators have reeled
off question after question about their two
main concerns: The possibility the AWACS
might fall into Soviet hands and the security
of Israel.

When the time came to vote, however, two
senators. Baker and Richard G. Lugar
R-Ind., admitted that those contentions were
“invalid arguments to begin with” Even
senators voting for the disapproval seemed
torn by what congressional blockade of (he
AWACS deal would do to U.S. relations with
Arab states.

Reagan was expected to pick up two more
senate supporters for the sale Friday, Mark
Andrews R.-N. Dak., and Senate Minority
leader Robert C. Byrd D-W.Va.

down unarmed police. The official casualty
toll was 53 killed, 108 wounded.

In his inauguration speech. President
Mubarak said he would take a tough line
against activists. “To those who want to play
around with the nation's will, I declare that
not a single one of them will escape firm
punishment,” he said.

Columnist Anis Mansour, writing in the
semi-official newspaper^/ Ahram, said Sadat
had been slow to deal with opponents
“because he chose peace and tolerance.”
Mansour. a confident of Egypt's leaders, pre-
dicted that Mubarak would prove himself
firm and capable of confrontation.

Meanwhile, here is a list of the members of
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s gov-
ernment:

President and prime minister Hosni
Mubarak.

First deputy prime minister in charge of
information, local government and Al-Azhar
University: Dr. Fuad Mohieddin.

Deputy prime minister and minister of
foreign affairs: Kama] Hassan Ali.

Deputy prime minister for services and
minister of the interior Muhammad Nabawi
Ismail.

Deputy prime minister for production and
minister of petroleum Ahmed Ezzeddin
Hilal.

Deputy prime minister for economic and
financial affairs and minister of planning,
finance and the economy: Dr. Abdul Rafale
Abdul Meguid.

Deputy prime minister for parliamentary
(people's assembly) affairs: Fflcri Makram
Ebeid.

Defense and Military Production:
Lieutenant-General Muhammad Abdul-
Halim Abu Ghazala. Social insurance: Minis-
ter of State for Social Affairs: Dr. Amal
Osman. Reconstruction: Minister of state for
bousing and land reclamation: Hassaballah
Kafrawi. Irrigation and minister of state for
Sudanese affairs: Muhammad Abdul Hadi
Samaha.

. Tourism and civil aviation; Ali Gamal
Nazer, Justice: Ahmed Samirsarai. Industry
and mineral wealth; Muhammad Taha Zafci.

Electricity: Muhammad Osman Abaza,
Supply and internal trade: Ahmed Nouth .

Popular development: Saad Shirbini. Edu-
cation and scientific research; Dr. Mustapha
Kamal Helmi. Foreign affairs: Dr. Butros
Ghali.

Manpower and Vocational Training: Saad
Muhammad Ahmed. Agriculture and Food
Sufficiency: Dr. Mahmoud Muhammad
Daoud.

Transport, communications and shipping:
Soliman Metwali Soliman. Culture:
Muhammad Radwan.

Without portfolio: Albert Barsum Salama

Health: Dr. Manduh Gabr.

Islamic endowments: Dr. Zakaria Barri.

Relations with parliament; Muhammad
Abdel- Akher, Muhammad Rashwan, Muk-
tar Hassan Salem Hani.

Reagan 9 s call
falls flat on
Russian ears

MOSCOW, Oct. 16 (AP) — The Soviet
news ageny Tass said Friday that U.S. Presi-
dent Ronald Reagan's foreign aid policy
speech was a call for developing nations “to
open their markets to the monopolies of the
imperialist countries of the West."

“The United States President obviously
ignores tbe fact that it is already the end of the
20th Century, and not the 19th Century
Tass correspondent Yevgeny Yegorov wrote
in a dispatch from Washington.

Reagan's speech, delivered Thursday in
Philadelphia, was aimed at next week’s
“North-South” conference of rich and poor
nations in Can cun, Mexico.

In its report of the speech Tass said that
“even the United States will not manage to
stop or even impede the progress of the
developing countries which with good reason
demand the establishment of an equitable
economic order in the world”.

“The president gave much unasked for
advice to the developing countries on how
they shoud strengthen their economy,” Tass
said. “But all this boils down to one thing —
the developing countries should follow the
capitalist road/'

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17,1981

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Jeddah firm to assemble tractors

. By a Staff Writer

■ JEDDAH. Oct. 16 — E.A. Juffali has a
plan to assemble tractors here. Two thousand
tractors will be assembled per year in the first
phase and equal number when the produc-
tion plan becomes operational. Saudi Bust -
ness reported M.S. Tabbara, marketing man-
ager of Juffali. as saying.

Kingdom’s pavilion
wins first place award

BAGHDAD. Oct. 16 (SPA1 — The King-
dom's pavilion at the Baghdad International
Fair won, for the second time, the first place
golden prize among 72 other pavilions. More
than 3,000 international companies partici-
pated in the fair and displayed their
developmental products.

. Despite the formal conclusion of the fair
Thursday, it has been decided to continue
the show for the excellent pavilions, among
which is the Kingdom's. Another prize also
was given to the Saudi Arabian pavi lion,
which attracted large numbers of viewers and
displayed various aspects of the development
and progress prevailing in the country.

According to the official, a joint-venture
company has been set up under the name of
Saudi Tractor Manufacturing Company, and
involving technical collaboration with Mass-
sev Fergusson, a leading Canadian manufac-
turer of tractors with factories in England.
Turkey. Thailand. Libya. Canada, Brazil,
France and Pakistan. The tractors, to be
assembled in the Jeddah plant, have two
models that will be imported from England,
the magazine reported

According to Tabbara. the . factory
equipment will be imported from Europe and
will be handled in the initial stage by 75 to
100 people. Employees will be trained sev-
eral months before the assembly is to begin in
the company’ s special training center. The
four-month training period will be handled
by local technicians and experts from abroad.
On- the- job training facilities also will be pro-
vided.

"We also are gearing up our repair and
service facilities Tabbara said. Tile com-
pany has four main workshops besides those
owned by its dealers in the three main agricul-
tural center of Asir. Qasim and A1 Hassa.
There also is a fully computerized spare parts
depot to cater to all its branches in the King-

dom. he told Saudi Business. The depot,
which has a covered aea of 15,000 square
meters, maintains continuos contact with the
other sales outlets with an on-line connec-
tion. Tabbara added.

Juffali faces its stiffest competition from
Ebro International Harvester and Volvo. But
Juffali claims to have captured 65 percent of
the market with a steady sale of 3,000 trac-
tors per year.

Juffali is planning to diversify its line of
business in common with the international
trend. Presently it deals in construction and
printing equipment, vehicles, electrical
appliances, electro- mechanical contracting
and other areas. But now it will enter a new
field with the proposed manufacture of air
conditioners and refrigerators when its new
factory, now under construction in Jeddah,
becomes operational in mid- J 982.

According to Saudi Business, the flourish-
ing business in agriculture equipment reflects
the steady growth of fanning. The Ministry of
Agriculture has launched a multipronged
drive to increase farm productivity by intro-
ducing computerized irrigation in Hasa,
reclaiming the desert and through the dis--
tribution of quality seeds.

Australia to send
five companies
to Riyadh exhibit

By a Staff Writer

JEDDAH, Oct. 16 — Five Australian
companies will be represented at SaudibuQd
*81 to be held ® Riyadh beginning October
25. They will show a range of CKD (com-
pletely knocked down) door and window
hardware, radio-controled roll-up g arag e
doors, spun concrete pipes, PVC pipes and
fittings for above and below ground drainage
systems, and a domestic solar hot water sys-
tem.

Australian companies export a variety of
building materials and fittings, many man-
ufactured by its own resources of iron and
steel and aluminum, with which Australia is
particularly well supplied. The country also
possesses a wealth of unique natural materi-
als in the form of native Australian timbers.

These timbers are exported throughout the
world, some for decorative purposes and
many others for their durability. Australian
industry helped pioneer the domestic and
commercial use of solar energy in the 1960s
and the country now has a thriving local
industry in domestic water heating and
swimming pool heating.

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4 nil cerrier, (excellent)

2- P-H Mod. 65QATC, 65 Ton Cram

HYDRAULIC CRANES

5-GROVE Mod. RT6DS 18 ton. 28 ft. - 70 ft. boom

3- BAWTAM— TELEKRU1SER. Mod. S488, 15 ton {fair to good)

GENERATORS & LIGHT TOWERS

2-450 KW Mod. 680-FDC, powered by Cummin Dina!

25-2.75 to 60 KW portabla generators
40- ON AN and other light towers, 6KW diesel

WHEEL TRACTORS

1 - MASSEY FERGUSON Mod. MF-165

2- 1HC Mod. 382Q w/hyd front-end loader & back hoe
1-IHC Mod. 3500 w/hyd. front-end loaders back hoe

3- IHC Mod. 744 w/hyd front-end loader & backhoe
3- DAVID GROWN Mod. 990 Utility tractor

1— IHC Mod. 574 Utility tractor

1- IHC Mod. 500 w/hyd front-end loader

2- J0HN DEERE Mod. JD3I0A0 w/hyd front-end loaders backhoe
5-CASE Mod. 580 w/hyd front-end loader and backhoe

2— ALLIS CHALMERS Mod. 840B w/hyd front-end loader & backhoe

2- JAC0BSEN Mod. GT10 power mower

1-BUCYRUS ERIE Mod. 0-190 w/hyd front-end loader & backhoe

CRAWLER DRILLS

3— PnoemitictHyd. Rock Drill? Mounted
on Cat 0 -9 Crawler Carrier

CRAWLER TRACTORS

T -CATERPILLAR Mod. D-7 w/winch
1-CATERPILLAR Mod. D-8

1- FIAT-ALLIS Mod. 1 18 w/itraight hyd. dozer

2- CASE Mod. 450 w/1 cu. yd. bucket
1-Cit583 Pipelayer

CRAWLER LOADERS

2-CATERPILLAR Mod.977L
1— FIAT-ALLIS Mod. 12GB
1-CASE Mod. 350

MOTOR GRADERS

1 -CLARK Mod. 301S Motor Grader
1— FIAT-ALLIS Mod. 10QC Motor Grader
1-FI AT-ALUS Mod. 65 Motor Grader

DITCHING MACHINES

1-0 ITCH WITCH Mod. V-30. w/backhoe pnue. tire mtd.

1- DITCH WITCH Mod. R-65A, pnue. tire mtd.

FORKLIFTS

2- LULL Mod. 400-34, highlift 7000 lb. capacity
1-PETTIBONE Mod. DA-8000 diesel 8000 lb capacity
1— PETTIB0NE Mod. 6-33 6000 lb capacity
1-PRIME MOVER Mod. 1-36 1000 lb capacity

1 - CATERPILLAR Mod. V100-DPS diesel 10000 lb. capacity

2- LANCER Mod. HD15P15 14000 lb. capacity
1— CLARK Mod. Y30D 15000 lb. capacity

1 -CLARK Mod. 5000, 500Q lb. capacity

1- HY5TER Mod. PGflA 6000 lb capacity

2- CLARK Mod. Y1300 13000 lb. capacity

AIR COMPRESSORS

3- GA RON ER -DENVER 750 CFM, portabla diem!

1-SULLAIR 315 CFM portable
1-INGERSOL RAND 750 CFM portable
12-VARIOUS size and Air Compressors

TRAILERS

1- HARGILL flatbed 2-OITCHWITCH SS-4 imp trailer

1 -HOBBS 8009 gal.tank 3-HOBBS flatbed 40 ft.

5-TITAL SR51 flatbed 1— THAI LOR 40 ft flatbed

2- FRUEHAUF low boy flatbed 1-GEMCO utility trailer
1-EIDAL 3800 galtank

COMPACTOR & ROLLERS

4- BROS SPV-735, 10 ton
vibratory roller

3-OYNAPAC CM— 04

5- MBW GP 5000-W, 22"-24"
2-OYNAPAC CM— 21

13— VIBROMAX Mod. SL— 2

4— IN GERSQ L-RAN D Mod.SP-5424
2— INGERSOL-RAND Mod. UR-12

1— INGE RSO L-RAN 0 Mod. BPD-24

2- JNGEBSOL-BAND Mod. BP-12
4-IN GE RSO L-RAND Mod. SP-54

WELDERS

1- MILLER Mod. 0-4, diesel 2-LINC0LN Mod. 1285 rectifier

4- MILLER Mod.MARK Vill/ac. 8-LINCOLN 400 emp diesel

16-MILLER MdcLSRH- 333 300Aree 3-H0B ART D-400-AM rectifier
37-MILLER ModSRH-222 200A rec 10-H0BART Mod. DR353 diesel

TRUCK TRACTORS

5- 1877 CHEVROLET Mod. 90 w/diesel engine

2- 1977 CHEVROLET Mod. 70 w/diesel engine
4-1976 MERCEDES Mod. 2624/36 w/diesei engine
1-1978 BROCKWAY Mod. F76L w/diesel engine
7-1976 KENWORTH C500A w/diesei engine

3- 1953 KENWORTH Mod. 854 w/diesel engine ‘

DUMP TRUCKS

1- 1975 MACK Mod. R685S w/ 12 cu. yd. body diesel engine

2- 1976 HINO Mod. KB212 w/4 cu.yd. bodies

1- 1976 HINO Mod. 21/200 w/ 12 cu. yd. body

4- 1976 CHEVROLET Mod. 70 w/ 10 cu.yd. body diesel

2- 1975 GMC Mod. 7000 w / 10 co.yd. body,ges

3- KENW0RTH Mod. C500A wl drasai engine
3-CHEVR0LET Mod. C— 5 w / 4 cu. yd. bodta^ges engine

FLATBED TRUCKS

3-1976 GMC Mod. 6000 w/ gas engine
12-1977 CHEVROLET Mod. C-60 w/gas engine
1-1976 FARGO Mod. 600 w/gas engine

TANKER TRUCKS

3-1977 MERCEDES Mod. 2624/52 w/ 4000 gal. water
1-1977 CHEVROLET Mod. 70 w/ 3000 gal. water
1-1976 GMC Mod. 6000 w/ 2000 gal. water
3-1976 KENWORTH Mod. CSQ0A nr/ 4000 gal. water

1- 1956 FARGO Mod. WSOfl w / 1500 gal. water

LUBRICATION TRUCKS

3- 1976 MERCEDES Mod. LK911 wl diesel engines

2- 1968 FARGO Mod. 500 w / gas engines
1-1976 CHEVROLET Mod. C-60 wl gas engine

OTHER TRUCKS/VEHiCLES

1— MERCEDES UNIMOG Mod. 406 track mobile

4- 1978 IHC CQF-5370 Garbage Hauling w/ diesel engine

2- 1970 CHEVROLET Mod. 60 line wash w/ tank trucks
2-1976 DAIHATSU Mod. L0V-23M 1 cyd. transit mixers
2-1976 Mod. 50 Passenger 8uses

MARINE EQUIPMENT -

Jana 3 & 4 Mooring Launches 72 feet, 95 ton displacement

MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT

Water pumps 2" to 6”, concrete mixers, concrete finishers, concrete buckets, gunite machines, power screens,
pout pumps, concrete vibrators, basic motor grader, painting equipment, sewage treatment equipment, survey
equipment, conduit benders, rebar bonders & shears, pipe bovelers, pipe threaders, steam cleaners, air tools, core
drills, masonry saws, air winches, fork lift tracks, bottom dump trailers, concrete forms.

ASBESTOS CEMENT PIPE AND VINYL PIPE WRAP

Approximately 50,000, 4- and 5-meter joints of 100 mm pressure and non-pressure asbestos cement pipe. Some
hart coupling and gaskets. Thousands of rolls of various width Vinyl Pipe Wrap and Cement.

MATERIALS AND TOOLS

Huge quantities of wire rope, shackles, snatch blocks, hooks, stud bolts, machine bolts, galvanized rails, founda-
tion anchors, electrical distribution supplies; cittuse hinds conduit boxes, switches, industrial Jij/»t fixtures,
welding supplies; cables, cleaning brashes, dry rod ovens, exhaust fans, tools; trolley hoist, hand tampers, electric
grinders, rigid pipe threaders, cutting blades, wrenches, tube benders, saws, beveling machines, drflls, damps,
jacks, tap and die sets.

LOCATION

The stva of the suction is et Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, north of the Ramada Hotel on the Dammam highway.
The site is 8 kilometers from Dhahran Airport.

TERMS

The sale will be held in Arabic using Saudi Arabian RSyal valuations. Interpreters will be available to assist buyers
All sales will be to the highest bidder. Payment shall be in Saudi Arabian Riyals or United States Dollars at the
conversion rate specified by Arameo on the date of the safe. Accept a ble forms of payment are cash and/or certi-
fied cheek. Payment by 8 company or personal check must be accompanied by proof of identity and an irrevoc-
able letter of credit or bank guarantee acceptable to the auctioneer. All negotiable instruments including irrevoc-
able letters of credit or bank guarantees Shell be written in Arabic and English. Each bidder rail be required to
make a 20% deposit after each bid award and will be requited to make 100% payment the last day of sale, if the
success fill bidder pays the bid deposit but does not subsequently compfew the transaction by making full pay-
ment and executing the required safes documents, the tram will be reoffered for sale and the bid deposit will be
forfeited by the bidder. Detailed terms covering the auction may be obtained by contacting the office listed
below. Any changes will be covered by auctioneer on date of sde.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

SAUDI ARABIA: Contact Dan Maad, Tamimi Auctioneers, Phone 87-53793, Dhahran or Herb Woodruff
Phone 87-45085, Arameo, Saudi Arabia. Telex: 601220 ARAMCO SJ.

U. S- A.: Tres Carpenter or Jack McVicker, Tamimi Auctioneers, Dallas, Texas, U. S. A. Telex: 79—5078 JDOE INC DALS.

Telephone: 214-239-9524 U. S., Watts 800-527-0924.

Guinea supports Fahd plan

RIYADH, Oct. 16 (SPA) — Guinean
Prime Minister Dr. Lancia Bianogi reiterated
his country’s support to the Saudi Arabian
plan for peace in the Middle East.

In an interview Friday with Okaz news-
paper, . Dr. Bianogi said Guinea is undertak-
ing extensive political and diplomatic moves
at the international level to have a backing
for the eight-point plan introduced last
August by Crown Prince Fahd to achieve last-
ing and duiablae peace in the region.

“My country has been at the head of the
nations supporting the Saudi Arabian for-
mula”, the prime minister said. He hailed the
world- wide backing given to Saudi Arabia's
blue- print, which will contribute in ensuring a
comprehensive solution to the Mid-East

crisis. '

In other developments, Japan's Foreign
Trade Minister Tanaka Nakanora Thursday
night met with the United Arab Emirates oil
minister. Sheikh Saeed Maneh Otaiba, cur-
rently visiting Japan.

They discussed bilateral relations between
UAE and Japan and issues pertaining-to
energy fields. They also reviewed the current
developments in the Middle East. Dr. Otaiba
urged the industrialized countries to take a
firm initiative for seeking a comprehensive
solution to the Middle East problem to let-
stability prevail in the region.

Dr. Otaiba arrived in Japan on Monday on
a few days official visit-

BRIEFS

JEDDAH, Oct. 16 — Industry ministers of
the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
member states will hold their conference in
Riyadh on Oct. 1 9 at the Intercontinental
Hotel. The conference wQJ be preceded by a
meeting of the preparatory committee Satur-
day, according to Al -Jazirah Friday.

RIYADH, Oct. 16 (SPA) — The Saudi
Arabian Standards Organization works to
increase cooperation among the ^peoples of
the world and facilitate commercial transac-
tions, according to SASO Director Dr.
Khaled Yusuf Al-Khalaf. Speaking on the
occasion of the International Specifications
and Standards Day which was held Wednes-
day. Dr. Khaiaf said the organization also
plays an important role in the transfer of
technology. He called on the private sector to
assist SASO by abiding with the Saudi Ara-
bian specifications in their dealings and con-

^JEDDAH. Oct. 16 — The Kingdom will
ta ke part in the preliminary meetings for
international planning and cooperation ro
develop the Arab and Islamic culture to be
held in Tunis on Nov. 1 0 . Okaz reported. The
meeting is organized by the Arab League
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ-
ization (ALESCO). The three-day meeting.

to be attended by Arab ministers of informa-
tion and culture and a number of scholars,
will study the conditions of the Arabic lan-
guage, and the Arab- Islamic culture and
means of developing it outside the Arab
world.

MAKKAH, Oct. 16 (SPA) — The second
part of the Muslim World League's cultural
season begins Saturday evening at a function
to be held at the league's headquarters here.
Five lecturers will be delivered on various
Islamic topics for which the MWL wQI
arrange simultaneous translation into several
languages.

JEDDAH. OcL 16 — The Posts, Tele-
graph and Telephones Ministry will intro-
duce a new telephone billing system, which
will register telephone numbers to which calls
are placed inside or outside the Kingdom.
According to Al -Jazirah Friday the new sys-
tem will be applicable next month. It will
enable subscribers to know the numbers cal-
led through their telephones.

BONN, Oct. 16 (SPA) — Saudi Arabia is
taking part in the international book fair
which opened in Frankfurt Friday. The fair
exhibits about 50,000 books in various lan-
guages.

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IDB executives end meeting

JEDDAH rw ! A /CO AN TT- . T_l_ _ - tk* rv... J (l m .. — * ^

JEDDAH. Oct. 16 (SPA) - The Islamic
Development Bank s board of executives
concluded its 52nd session meeting here

e Y* n,n B approving loans of
DG5.407 million (S73.37 mUllon) to finance
14 operations in favor of 11 rDB member
count ncs.

The Jeddah-based Islamic bank also
approved to provide loan of ID18 million
(520 million) for the Senegal River Land
Reclamation Organization. Three member
countries— Senegal, Mali and Mauritania —
Concerned with the organization. The first
phase of projects planned by the organization
include building the Mantali dam in Mali and

Tunisia cabled

16 (SPA > ~ Kif1 S
K. haled Thursday sent a cable of congratu-
lations to Tunisian President Habib Bour-
guiba on the occasion of the evacuation of
Bcnzert base. In his message. King Khaled
expressed his best compliments to
Tunisian President and wished welfare
and success for the people of Tunisia.

the Diyama dam in Senegal with the aim of
increasing the agricultural land and generat-
ing large quantities of electric power.

The IDB executive directors also agreed to
extend a loan of ID3.5 million ($4 million) to
establish a textile factory for the Sumatex
project in Indonesia. It will have a capacity of
9.5 million square meters of colored and tre-
ated textiles annually. The board of directors
approved another ED5.7S million ($647 mil-
lion) loan as participation in the Nafida
Cement Factory of Tunisia. The factory will
produce one million tons of calcareous;

950.000 tons of portland cement and

150.000 tons of limestone annually.

• Among the loans approved also was
ID3.54 million ($4 million) participation for
the establishment of the Zamamra Sugar Fac-
tory in Morocco, which will produce about

4.000 tons of Sugar daily and contribute
toward toward achieving self-sufficiency for
sugar consumption in the area.

Another ID1 23,000 ($140,000) loan was
extended to a matchstick factory in Niger in
the context of the financial commitments
granted by the IDB to the Niger Develop-
ment Bank. The commitments provided by

Chatti meets Paris Islamic group

P ARIS, Oct. 16 (SPA) — Secretary Gen-
eral of the Organization of Islamic Confer-
ence (OIC) Habib Cbalti reiterated that
Crown Prince FahcTs Middle East peace plan
could serve as a constructive platform for
realizing comprehensive and just peace in the
region.

He commended Thursday Prince Fahcf s
eight-point formula and said it could ensure
an independent state for the Palestinian peo-
ples with Jerusalem as its capitals
Addressing the meetings of the Society of

Islam-West here, Chatti hailed the stand of
the French President Francois Mitterrand
caning for recognizing the legitimate rights of
the Pales tinian people and their right to
establish their own state.

Reviewing the progress of relations bet-
ween the Islamic world and the West, Chatti
hailed the responsibilities shouldered by the
society in depicting a true picture of Islam in
the Western world and its successful attempts
to defeat the enemy campaigns of discredit-
ing and creating doubts on Islam.

Prayer Times

Saturday

Makkah

Medina

Riyadh

Dammam

Buraidah *

Tabok

Fajr (Dawn)

4:52

4:55

4:27

4:15

4:39

5.10

Dhubr (Noonj

12:06

12:07 •

11:38

11:25

11:49

12:19

ASST (Afternoon)

3:26

2:57

2:43

3:07

3:36

Maghreb (Sunset)

5:56

5:54

5:26